Self Study Meeting, Sunday, December 6, 2020

Self Study Meeting

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Zoom online

There were thirteen of us present for this Sunday online meeting sponsored by the Krishnamurti Educational Centre of Canada. As is often the case, the session was opened with a guided meditation inviting a “total attention without effort”, which was apparently expressed by Krishnamurti on his deathbed to be the essence of his teachings. After some short discussion of the meditation we moved on to a group sharing of what had struck people about the readings suggested for this meeting. These were the December 1 – 7 entries in The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti, which focused on the topic of aloneness. K goes deeply into the difference between loneliness and aloneness and the importance of being able to enter the state of aloneness, or the “innocence” beyond dependence and influence. It seemed to be a topic of great interest and relevance for the participants, who expressed a richness of observations about their own experiences of loneliness and aloneness. Everyone had an opportunity to speak about his or her questions and insights, and the meeting seemed to have a particular quality of depth to it which may be a result of the consistent participation of many of the inquirers in the Self Study meetings and other events offered by the Centre